17 Dioceses Plan Fund Campaign Totalling $26 Million
Episcopal News Service. May 4, 1978 [78128]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- The vital role of the dioceses in the Episcopal Church Venture in Mission was reaffirmed as the Venture Diocesan Campaign Committee heard Chairman K. Wade Bennett of Arlington, Tex., report that, so far in the effort, 17 dioceses plan fund campaigns totalling over $26,000,000.
Bennett told the group, which met at the Episcopal Church Center in late April, that a substantial portion of that sum had been pledged toward national Venutre projects.
Twenty dioceses now have campaign leaders. Bennett will coordinate the Diocesan Campaign -- which is to be the final part of the Church-wide 1976-79 renewal and fund-raising program -- through four provincial vice-chairmen. These four have oversight of two domestic provinces each and will work with provincial and diocesan leadership to carry the drive into all the congregations of the participating dioceses.
The Vice-Chairmen are: The Rev. George L. Werner of Manchester, N.H. (Provinces I, II); Mr. I. H. Burney of Jacksonville, Fla. (Provinces III, IV); Mr. Roger Ewing of Kansas City, Mo. (Provinces V, VII); and the Very Rev. Richard Coombs of Spokane, Wash. (Provinces VI, VIII).
The one-day meeting was held to bring the committee members up to date on Venture programs, policy and progress and to begin the work of coordinating and recruiting to make the final drive -- which will begin in January, 1979 -- a successful one.
Other members of the National Diocesan Campaign Committee are: The Rev. Lawson Anderson, Little Rock, Ark.; Mrs. Seaton Bailey, Griffin, Ga.; the Rev. Henry I. Burton, Lincoln, Neb.; the Rev. Canon W. David Crockett, Springfield, Mass.; the Rev. Herbert A. Donovan, Montclair, N.J.; the Rev. Arnold A. Fenton, San Diego, Calif.; the Rev. Carlson Gerdau, Houghton, Mich.; the Rt. Rev. Harold C. Gosnell, San Antonio, Tex.; Mr. and Mrs. Joe B. McShane, Monahans, Tex.; the Ven. William G. Penny, Garden City, N.Y.; Miss Diane Pollard, New York, N. Y.; Mrs. J. Brooks Robinson, Great Falls, Mont.; Mr. William Russell, Norfolk, Conn.; Mr. Jon O. Stufflebeen, Lincolnwood, Ill.; and Mr. Paul True, Spokane, Wash.